Now we have to make this file executable as well and let the server know that it has to start sickbeard at every reboot:

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sudo chmod+x/etc/default/sickbeard

sudo update-rc.dsickbeard defaults

Now sickbeard can be started, stopped and restarted with the following commands. For now just only use the start one:

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sudo service sickbeard start

sudo service sickbeard restart

sudo service sickbeard stop

Now point your browser to http://localhost:8081 or just replace localhost with the IP address of the computer in the network.

Configure Sickbeard

Now sickbeard is installed it is time to configure it. Point your browser to http://localhost:8081 or just replace localhost with the IP address of the computer in the network.

Select the small gear on the top-right and we will start configuring sickbeard.

On the General tab enter your username and password so that access to your sickbeard installation is somewhat protected.

On the Search Settings tab we will have to tell sickbeard which searcher to use. In our case that will be torrents using transmission.

Here we enter all the information that we used while configuring Transmission. Set the ‘Transmission Directory’ browse to ‘home/YOURUSERNAME/Series/Downloads’.

On the next tab Search Providers select the ones you want to use.

On the tab Post Processing tab set the ‘TV Download DIr’ to ‘home/YOURUSERNAME/Series/Downloads’ again. Disable the ‘Rename’ check and enable the ‘Move associated files’ and ‘Scan and Process’ buttons.

In my opinion the ‘Process Episode Method’ should be set to ‘Hard Link’. The reason behind this is that it takes less space than the ‘Copy’, it won’t cripple your uploading by ‘Move’ and nothing damaging happens when you accidentally remove the torrents from Transmission (which will happen when you use ‘Symlink’.

Now that sickbeard is all configured, it is time to add your first show. Hover over ‘Show List’ and than click the ‘Add Shows’ button.

Click ‘Add New Show’ and search for a show you want. Sickbeard should automatically search the correct name from TVDB or from TVRAGE. Instead of clicking the ‘Add Show’ button, click on the ‘Next’ button. On this page you can set the default folder where in the end all shows should go. If you have followed this complete tutorial this default folder should be ‘/home/YOURUSERNAME/Series/MediaServer’.
Click the ‘Next’ button again and there are some additional options which I personally like to set as follows:

Now finally click the ‘Add Show’ button on the bottom and congratulations, you have just added your first show to sickbeard.

Now we can go on to couchpotato.

Install Couchpotato

To install couchpotato move to your home directory and clone a copy from the git-repository:

If all went okay your hidden couchpotato folder will be filled with a copy of the repository.

Get in the folder and copy the ubuntu script:

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cd.couchpotato/init

sudo cpubuntu/etc/init.d/couchpotato

sudo chmod+x/etc/init.d/couchpotato

This was the first part of the installation. Now you also have to tell couchpotato under which user it should run and where its folders are stored. Therefor we first edit and then copy the file ubuntu.default from the same folder to /etc/default

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nano ubuntu.default

Edit the username to YOURUSERNAME and change the folder to /home/YOURUSERNAME/.couchpotato

Close the file and save it. Now we can copy it:

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sudo cpubuntu.default/etc/default/couchpotato

Now we have to make this file executable as well and let the server know that it has to start sickbeard at every reboot:

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sudo chmod+x/etc/default/couchpotato

sudo update-rc.dcouchpotato defaults

Now sickbeard can be started, stopped and restarted with the following commands. For now just only use the start one:

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sudo service couchpotato start

sudo service couchpotato restart

sudo service couchpotato stop

Now point your browser to http://localhost:5050 or just replace localhost with the IP address of the computer in the network.

Configure Couchpotato

You’ll be welcomed with a nice wizard which will guide you through all the necessary settings.

At the ‘Renamer’ part of the wizard please pay attention to the following items:

From folder = /home/YOURUSERNAME/Movies/Downloads

To folder = /home/YOURUSERNAME/Movies/MediaServer

File-naming = original.ext (without the .ext your server will not know what to do with it)